Hap Ga Kyung

He studied with Sing Lung for ten years, until his master's death. He then travelled across China performing good deeds and exchanging knowledge with great Kung Fu masters, which earned him the nickname "Dai Hap", the hero. In his honour, his students called his style Hap Ga, the Family of the Hero.

Back in Canton, he wished to open his school. As was customary, he raised a lei tai — a raised platform for public challenges — and fought 150 no-rules bouts without ever being defeated. He earned a reputation as the best fighter in Canton and held the first place among the Ten Tigers of Canton, a group of masters dedicated to keeping the peace and doing good.

He studied Hung Kuen with his father for five years and then followed a student of Dit Kiu Sam for six more. Upon meeting Wong Yan Lam, he became his disciple and inherited his teachings.

A famous Hung Kuen master, known in Canton as the "King of the Staff" for his invincible technique. He admired Hap Ga and was a colleague of Wong Lun. The two masters exchanged knowledge: Wong Lun sent two of his students, Man Gam and Jau Hap Sang, to learn the Hung Gar staff, and in return Deng Long entrusted his son, Deng Gum To, to learn Hap Ga.

He learned Hung Gar from his father and Hap Ga from Wong Lun, excelling in both styles. He later studied Taiji with Yang Sau Cheung and was one of only two Canton masters chosen to travel to Beijing to learn the modern Taiji forms from Li Tianje when they were created. He was Kung Fu instructor of the Guangdong provincial team, judge at the National Wushu Championships, vice-president of the Guangdong Wushu Association and Canton's regional representative to China's National Wushu Council.

He began training Hap Ga and Hung Gar with his father at three years old and is the fifth generation of Kung Fu masters in his family. He competed from 1957 to 1979 in Canton and Guangdong province, winning numerous first places:

• 1961: traditional Southern style and Taijiquan.
• 1963: overall champion of Guangdong province, with gold medals in Northern styles, Southern styles and weapons.
• 1964: first place at the National Championships in Shandong in Hap Ga empty-hand, sword and spear.

He was invited three times to Beijing to give lectures on Hap Ga and, in 1983, the Chinese government distinguished him as a first-class master, with certificate and medal. He is chief judge in Canton, has judged at the International Championships in Hong Kong, and has published books on the Hap Ga empty-hand, sword and staff forms. Between 1979 and 2006 he directed the Southern China Martial Arts School in Canton, where he trained champions in forms and full-contact fighting.